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MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS AND SHOES.

Patented Feb. 28,1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

ANDREW NICHOLS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONEIIALF 'IO CHARLES GRANT, JR, SAME PLACE.

MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS AND SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,361, dated February 28, 1882.

Application filed December 12, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW NronoLs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bos ton, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to produce a boot or shoe which shall possess to a great degree the merits of a boot or shoe made with an insole and welt, without the labor and cost attending the ordinary manufacture of the latter. I accomplish this result and carry out my invention by discarding the insole and independent welt now universally employed in welted boots and shoes, and I plow up or .cut a welt from the inner edge of the outsole, thereafter proceeding to insert the edge of the upper between the two, and finally secure the whole by sewing or nailing through and through in a proper machine, or by any of the methods now practiced for securing outsoles in the through-and-through process, as distinguished from a turned shoe.

The drawings accompanying this specification represent, in Figure l, a view of the outsole of a boot or shoe containing my invention, or a-portion thereof, while Fig. 2 is a seetionof a childs boot made in accordance with such invention.

Inproceeding to carry out my invention I provide a sole, A, of ordinary material, and

Iplow about its entire outer edge a deep channel, 13, by which means I form an endless lip or welt, O, of like extent. The sole thus prepared is secured to a last, with the welt next the latter, and the upper (which is shown at D) then lasted in any of the ordinary methods, the edge of the upper being welt or to the particular angle the channel which produces it takes. The channel may extend in places nearly to the center of the sole from side to side, or even entirely across such sole in places, and it may be at any angle with respect to the face of the sole.

A boot or shoe made as contemplated by my invention takes the place, to a great extent, of the ordinary turned shoe, for the reason that it possesses the elasticity and ease of wear, with the cheapness of manufacture, of this class of boots and shoes without the labor and the injury to the upper resulting from the turned process. In addition to this I am enabled to employ a thicker sole than is practicable in turned work. My method does away with the expense of an insole and the labor attending the use of an independent welt secured first to the insole and upper and then to the outsole.

When the sole is to be secured by sewing, a channel in the outer surface of the sole is to be employed in the usual manner. In the various methods of nailing, this channel may or may not be used, according to circumstances.

I am aware that it is not broadly new to make a welt in a sole and secure the upper directly thereto, turned shoes having been made in that way. Such I do not claim.

What I do claim is- 1. The method of soling boots and shoes, consisting in splitting the edge of the sole circumferentially, applying the sole to the last, stretching the upper over the last right side out, inserting the edge of the upper in the circumferential slit of the sole, and secur- ANDREW NICHOLS.

Witnesses:

H. E. LODGE, F. CURTIS. 

